I can agree that the US health care systems seems to be uniquely f-cked up. (No other term seems possible to apply.) But centrally planned European health care

I can agree that the US health care systems seems to be uniquely f-cked up. (No other term seems possible to apply.) But centrally planned European health care systems are far from perfect. I am familiar with the Swedish system and it is unable to diagnose problems because of administration. Afaik, international benchmarking comparisons supports this. The doctors at the "sharp end" don't have enough minutes per patient to find problems that aren't obvious. People have to try to go to multiple doctors, until they find someone that isn't just too traumatized by the system to do their job. I would guess somewhere between 0.5 and 5 percent (this has not been examined) of the Swedish population walks around with some simple to cure problem which lowers their life quality for years and decades. From myself and people I know -- knees, food allergies, lack of some vitamin/mineral, bacterial infections, thyroid problems, etc. I have quite often heard the expression about someone with problems -- "too sick to get well". That is, that person is too ill to make enough noise that the medics have to take the energy and diagnose, just to get rid of him/her.